skell
Plural: skells
Noun
- a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
- A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.
Verb
- To fall off or fall over.
Examples
- Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
- She went skelling over on the ice.
Origin / Etymology
* Perhaps from skeleton, describing the often skeletal appearance of drug users.
* Alternatively, from skellum or skelder ("to beg in the streets"). Used by Ben Jonson, 1599.
* In the sense of a suspicious person, popularized by the American TV police drama NYPD Blue.
Scrabble Score: 9
skell: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordskell: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skell: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
skell: valid Words With Friends Word